Why Men Kill Women Is Not A Mystery

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12. APA: three women/day are murdered by intimate partners in the US

Novara, we exchanged posts on this on another thread, and thanks for posting this story.

As I've expressed elsewhere, I'm stunned that there seems to be little outrage these days that more women are killed each year by intimate partners than people by police. I think it's because the murder of women (of all races) by intimate partners is somehow seen as natural or the woman is believed to be complicitous.

And as we talked about, women of color have additional challenges in escaping batterers because men of color do indeed face profound racism in the criminal justice system--plus there's a lot of pressure to stay silent on these issues within the community because of the racial injustices that African American face in the non-domestic sphere. And they tend to have less of a safety net.

I'm being reminded all over again that women's lives don't seem to matter either, unless they're murdered by strangers. They certainly don't seem to matter to the people bashing progressive candidates for "failing to put racial injustice at the center of their platform." What, does gender justice mean nothing?

Lundy Bancroft is the best writer on battering today. Highly recommend his first work, "Why Does He Do That." He worked with batterers groups for years and advanced the analysis and strategies (and advocacy) for battered women so much. He's saved a lot of lives.